Board Member Detail
Frank Hutchings
Founding President
In Memorium
Frank was the founding President of API. He was a marketing executive from Rochester and brought his considerable talent to establishing the API. Frank had a summer home in Paul Smiths and was very involved with the Paul Smith’s College Board.
Frank Pine
President
Frank is a retired ecologist from a Maryland consulting firm. Frank is involved in several Adirondack organizations and is an avid photographer. Frank and his wife Lorraine have a summer home in Long Lake and live in Baltimore. He has been on the API Board for 14 years.
Bill Farber
Vice President
Robert Cummings
Treasurer
Robert is an educational consultant and former banker. He and his wife Poppy are life-long members of the Tahawus Club in Newcomb where they have lived for the past five years..
Stuart Angert
Trustee
Stuart is a retired businessman from Buffalo. He is on several boards in western NY and the Adirondacks. He has been on API board for many years.
Robert Calihan
Trustee
Rob owns Callihan Law in Rochester, a specialized firm.
Jim Dawson
Trustee
Mike German
Trustee
Mike has served on the API Board for several years. He loves the Adirondacks and hiking. Mike is retired from NYSEG and in retirement started his own energy business, Corning Gas. Mike is past president of the Board. He and his wife Susan live in Connecticut.
Paul Hai
Trustee
Paul is a co-director of the SUNY ESF’s Newcomb campus.
Mark Leta
Trustee
Mark is retiree from NYSEG and is now working for Northline Utilities, an energy utility related business successful in the Adirondacks. He and his wife Debbie live in Peru and are involved in St. Lawrence related activities.
Mark Leta
Trustee
Mark is retiree from NYSEG and is now working for Northline Utilities, an energy utility related business successful in the Adirondacks. He and his wife Debbie live in Peru and are involved in St. Lawrence related activities.
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Col. Robert "Bob"
C. Lilly
Trustee
Bob is a retired Colonel from the US Air Force. In retirement he has been very involved in activities involving Newcomb and Essex County. He is a long time Board Member and for a time was Executive Director of API.
Chuck Monzeglio
Trustee
Chuck owns a construction business in Connecticut. He was a longtime friend of our founding President Frank Hutchins.
Melany Putman
Trustee
Troy Trombley
Trustee
A North Country native who graduated from Beekmantown High School and received Bachelors Degree in Business Management from SUNY Plattsburgh, Troy has been working at NYSEG for 5 years. Originally hired as a Natural Gas Marketing professional, he now works with the Government and Community Relations group. Troy covers the North Country Territory. Troy and his wife Taylor have a 4 year old daughter Charlotte. In his free time he loves to golf, go on long trail walks, and enjoy activities on beautiful Lake Champlain.
Elizabeth "Liz" Thorndike
Elizabeth “Liz” Thorndike served for nearly 16 years as an Adirondack Park Agency commissioner and then 20 years as member of the board of directors of NYSERDA.
She is an educator in the field of natural resource policy and planning and has
been part of many teaching and learning teams with the Center for Environmental Information in Rochester and adjunct faculty at Cornell where she taught “Wilderness and Wildlands: Sustaining the Built Environment.
A board member of the API for many years, she also serves currently on the boards of the Adirondack Research Consortium and Paul Smith’s College.
Trustee
Working with the Best Sustaining Partners
